US Patent Issued to Bell Sports on Oct. 14 for "Impact attenuating helmet with inner and outer liner and securing attachment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,991, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Bell Sports Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Impact attenuating helmet with inner and outer liner and securing attachment" was invented by Paul A. Kele (Soquel, Calif.) and David T. Debus (Felton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impact attenuating helmet including an outer liner having an inner mating surface, an inner liner positioned under the outer liner and having an outer mating surface configured to be received by the inner mating surface of the outer liner, the inner liner and the outer liner being configured to move relative to each other along a slip plane between outer mating surface ...